Enhanced CD

This article is about the Enhanced CD certification mark. For the Enhanced Music CD format (also known as CD+Extra/CD+Plus), see Blue Book (CD standard).

Enhanced CD is a certification mark of the Recording Industry Association of America for various technologies that combine audio and computer data for use in both compact disc and CD-ROM players.^[1]

Official Enhanced Compact Disc logo/trademark

Enhanced Music Compact Disc logo/trademark

Compact Disc Interactive logo/trademark

Formats that fall under the enhanced CD category include mixed mode CD (Yellow Book CD-ROM/Red Book CD-DA), CD-i, CD-i Ready, and CD-Extra/CD-Plus (Blue Book, also called simply Enhanced Music CD or E-CD).^[2]

See also

• DualDisc
• CDVU+
• Super Audio CD
• Mixed Mode CD

References

1. Certification Mark: Enhanced CD See What You Can Hear
2. What is an Enhanced CD? Archived March 10, 2010, at the Wayback Machine